05/02/2010 - Belizean awarded an Emmy for work on Music video
The Emmy Award is held annually and on January 30th, the winners were announced for the Midsouth Awards. Among the recipients was 25 yr old Belizean video producer Joel Evans. Evans received the award under the entertainment category for editing of...
05/02/2010 - Erasmus Mundus Universities offer Master Degree Scholarships
UB is hosting the European Commission and representatives of 15 Erasmus Mundus member Universities from the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The 3 day visit opened this morning with a press conference mostly to update...
05/02/2010 - GOB grader stolen by armed bandits
A ministry of works workman who was conducting road works, grading the Young gal Road in Tea Kettle Village was held up at gun point and robbed of his heaviest and most costly piece of equipment, the government grader which is worth over 300 thousand dollars...
05/02/2010 - Post Mortem results on Lorenzo Ho released
Today the cause of death was released and according to Dr. Mario Estradabran, Lorenzo Ho died of acute lungs failure due to internal bleeding and swelling of the brain due to head trauma. After hearing what Ho died from, we contacted Belmopan police, who told us that...
05/02/2010 - Busses now free to cross Mexican Borders on weekends
Busses are now free to cross the borders of Mexico not only during the week, but also on the Weekends. Since the implementation of “Gamma Ray Screening”, a new security process, this is compared to an X-Ray for busses to detect contraband and illegal immigrants. The rules are not prejudice, as it applies even to...
05/02/2010 - 3 Adults Charged for Primary School Scuffle
Today, 34 yr old Andrea O’Conner, her sister, 32 yr old Kimberly Haulze and their friend, 36-year-old Kerion Daley, were arraigned in Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a string of charges. The trio were jointly charged for causing unlawful harm upon a student of St. Martin’s de Pores School...
05/02/2010 - Police 'Officer of the Month' for January selected
This afternoon a small ceremony was held at the Corozal Police Conference Room for the Officer of the Month for January, 2010. He is detective constable Ricky Valencia, who since his 8 years with the force has been performing his duty in an outstanding and exemplary manner...
05/02/2010 - BNTU press conference addresses new Education Act
The union is calling on GOB to address the issue of the collective bargaining agreement, and if not met, Panti says, drastic measures will be taken by the union. He would not specify what those actions would be. In terms of crime and violence Jaime Panty says that there must be short, medium and long term goals and that there needs to be a synchronizing of integrated approaches across the different ministries...
05/02/2010 - Ecumenical college wins Southern regional math olympiad
Today was the first day of the Social Security Math Olympiad for 2010. The first session was held in Dangriga where last year’s first and second place winners retained their places this year. It was a tight competition, but Ecumenical High School was the first place winner in the end with 1,550 points...
05/02/2010 - 22 Rural projects get the green light from BRDP
Every project supported by BRDP is driven by the local beneficiaries who decide and propose the project. They decide what BRDP will invest in, and how their contribution will be made. The beneficiaries implement the project with the ...